Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753860Ab3F0TQv (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:16:51 -0400 Received: from mail.free-electrons.com ([94.23.35.102]:56622 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753475Ab3F0TQu (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:16:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:16:47 +0200 From: Maxime Ripard To: Baruch Siach Cc: John Stultz , Thomas Gleixner , Emilio Lopez , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com, sunny@allwinnertech.com, shuge@allwinnertech.com, kevin@allwinnertech.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] clocksource: sun4i: Add clocksource and sched clock drivers Message-ID: <20130627191647.GE4319@lukather> References: <1372281421-2099-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> <1372281421-2099-3-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> <20130627060234.GD4824@tarshish> <20130627093558.GB8437@lukather> <20130627094649.GM4824@tarshish> <20130627172144.GD4319@lukather> <20130627173643.GQ4824@tarshish> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gDGSpKKIBgtShtf+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130627173643.GQ4824@tarshish> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3028 Lines: 81 --gDGSpKKIBgtShtf+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 08:36:43PM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote: > Hi Maxime, >=20 > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:21:44PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:46:49PM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:35:58AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 09:02:34AM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:16:55PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > > > > > +static u32 sun4i_timer_sched_read(void) > > > > >=20 > > > > > You commit message mentions "64 bits free running counter", but t= his one only=20 > > > > > returns 32 bit. > > > >=20 > > > > Yeah, the callback setup by setup_sched_clock is supposed to be > > > > returning a u32, and clocksource_mmio_init only accepts up to 32 bi= ts as > > > > well, so I'm only using the lower 32bits of this 64 bits counter. > > > >=20 > > > > I'll amend the commit log to state this. > > >=20 > > > But using 64 bit counter for sched_clock is much easier that using 32= bit one.=20 > >=20 > > Easier in what aspect? Both API looks similar. >=20 > You can just implement your own simple sched_clock() that just returns th= e=20 > current value of this 64 bit counter, and do away with all the tricky cod= e in=20 > kernel/time/sched_clock.c (in tip.git) that is needed to make the 32 -> 6= 4=20 > extension safe. This is not compatible with multi-platform kernel, though. Which is a deal-breaker for us. I'll use the setup_sched_clock_64 introduced by Stephen then :) Thanks for the time you took to review these patches! Maxime --=20 Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com --gDGSpKKIBgtShtf+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRzI+fAAoJEBx+YmzsjxAgsc4QAIVIFry/X42maC7Wb9gfZ31d KodztwtV5dxGJWTzcYXr5WgWC3WVKFcP0rs+YzQQm4ElGM0x5BjNkWzyPk0VK3Zb FkXrEiwKy6FRPH65Ru9KJ7mIpsmGZP6rvzVY1PkmM3gHlCg4Gl7F38WrqpvLI2wS aYGmUzGjaOu9hvStgLDX0But90SU/SWXBXQLUXYbzfXfDhO6KUWHWegcPZqoCFhk JKwaM1wG/AoiwZjONXF6E41EKlJXEEvF4uk1f9raX5A05erqyly1wprefeiFpSdm Nl2gdGmKYZMIjN8p5RC1djwikkPgRANHpGr7M1Srvu+Xx8b2C0TIXxhMpGLPtBwn 8QKgWGA8iqImy3pn/eaZ8U3yZCuCDbmR7wJ/EAyibWm+7C0fzQ3aKzYLJo8yNkk7 KcWoPn+jbOmFKTyLV4Q+jjhzMiNrAW0Yhf5d04y7JStm6YxRRGTefyxNdgtaeoO5 5jK0lrwS3bzwCLbHvcb9f5e4+i460KwDYwqLLLtxTx8vVIuDMZ3YzX68l7iicKtC yvKnHLRwxL20puKKaWhETfLYTUNLxT196iwnR/U0HPlnMaBKXN4NToK4tYpu4mye nA5m1E/19LX6eul9OtRtYgDiou/qCJeYwgSSGvigcfdrBH8UYL4Q1AdQnEN1yXDR RrnaWYrOcs7x3AouZfz1 =Cdpq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gDGSpKKIBgtShtf+-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/